[ut2004] ALSA or OSS

Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
>Or if you want read the alsa wiki for tips on setting up dmix plugin
>which will enable psudo multiple streams (works well for most people).
>>>>On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:55 -0400, Spike wrote:
>>>>Yeah, get a sound card that can play back multiple streams in hardware.
>>A card based on an emu10k1 chip, such as a soundblaster live works well.
>>In my opinion cards that only play a single stream are junk under linux.
>>>>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:51:40 +0000
>>Keir Lawson <keir at thelawsons.plus.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>Does UT2k4 use alsa or oss, i htought it was alsa - but normally when
>>>>>>>>i
>>>>>>>play two alsa apps i get sound from both, but i dont get this with ut,
>>>also, when another alsa app is running it complaings of not being able
>>>to access /dev/dsp. Is there anyway to get it working on alsa (so that
>>>>>>>>i
>>>>>>>can run other sound apps in the backgraound)?
>>>>>>Keir Lawson
>>>--
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>What's the overhead in using dmix?